problems building/linking gettext on powerpc-apple-darwin6.3

[Ruth and Dave O'Riva]

I've been trying to build gettext-0.11.5 on my Mac (OSX 10.2.3), and 
have been encountering the (apparently) common "undefined symbol: 
libintl_gettext" error when attempting to link anything, including 
libgettext, against libintl.

I tracked this down to a problem that looks pretty ugly; when libintl.h 
tries to do an asm redirect, it issues _INTL_ASM(libintl_gettext), 
which expands to __asm__( "libintl_gettext" ).  Unfortunately, the 
version of gcc that "came" with my Mac (claiming to be gcc 3.1 
(prerelease)), requires that line to read __asm__("_libintll_gettext") 
in order for everything to link correctly.

There is another define referenced by the _INTL_ASM macro, 
__USER_LABEL_PREFIX__, that looks like it should actually contain that 
underscore.  However, it does not, and I haven't been able to find a 
place where it gets defined anywhere.  When __USER_LABEL_PREFIX__ is 
defined to be a single underscore ("_"), then everything magically 
starts to work, and I can go on to build internationalized versions of 
glib, etc...

Hope this is helpful in some way.  I burned a couple of days tracking 
it down, and ended up having to hack the underscore in.  Please mail 
back if you'd like more detail - I can provide .configure logs, make 
sessions, etc. if desired.